Sonya Carson, the mother of Dr. Ben Carson, the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Trump Administration, died Monday.
Dr. Carson and his wife Candy announced his mother’s death on their Facebook page. Sonya had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in 2011.
While campaigning for the 2016 Republican nomination for president, Carson often quoted stories about his mother’s work ethic. According to her son, she worked two or three jobs when they lived in Boston because she refused to rely on welfare programs.
“She was a little different than a lot of people around, who were always saying, ‘You got two boys. You really don’t need to work’. She just didn’t like the idea of being dependent,” he told Politico.
He often credited his mother’s example for his own faith in God. Carson’s life was documented in the movie Gifted Hands.

In an interview several years ago when the film was released on DVD, Sonya told CBN, ‘God is greater than any human being, and we have to rely on God to supply all our needs even though we don’t see how we’re going to get them.”
He posted the following tribute to his mother on Facebook.
November 6, 2017 we lost my dear mother, Sonya Carson.
Although she came from an impoverished background with very little formal education, she somehow understood how success was achieved in our society.
If anyone had a reason to make excuses, it was her, but she absolutely refused to be a victim and would not permit us to develop the victim mentality either.
Whenever we made an excuse, she quoted the poem “Yourself to Blame.”

The poem is included in this post.
May she rest in peace.
Yourself to Blame by Mayme White Miller
If things go bad for you
And make you a bit ashamed
Often you will find out that
You have yourself to blame
Swiftly we ran to mischief
And then the bad luck came
Why do we fault others?
We have ourselves to blame
Whatever happens to us,
Here is what we say
“Had it not been for so-and-so
Things wouldn’t have gone that way.”
And if you are short of friends,
I’ll tell you what to do
Make an examination,
You’ll find the faults in you…
You are the captain of your ship,
So agree with the same
If you travel downward
You have yourself to blame










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Did she deaded?

RIP ma'am
your womanhood lives on.

she was(and still is) a great woman.
"yourself to blame" is one of the poems she used in instilling values in her kids.
rest on ma'am.